unclebucknasty

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by unclebucknasty 9d ago
You previously asserted that devs repeatedly ignored specific code quality instructions, which is clearly a fireable offense. You're now generalizing out to a vague concept of "sloppy code", which is not even quantifiable. In
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by unclebucknasty 11d ago
> tbf many human devs I've worked with don't... OTOH, if someone insists on writing bad code—even after being advised otherwise—then they should expect to be out of a job. Doesn't seem like "terminated junior develop
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by unclebucknasty 11d ago
I still have to remind Ai not to use the n+1 pattern in queries, and fight it to stop using inconsistent inline styles vs classes, even within a single page. How are people getting this "waste of time not to use AI" and "gene
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by unclebucknasty 11d ago
So, it's no more remarkable than what LLMs do every day, but more remarkable than the solve claimed in the article? So, none of this is noteworthy, but we're...noting it? Not quibbling with you, personally. Quibbling more with the
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by unclebucknasty 11d ago
> Now it's weird if an agent isn't writing 99% of your code. > But September 2028? It might just be weird to run companies without AI management. Coding is pattern matching and still requires a human in the loop to manage.
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by unclebucknasty 12d ago
> That's potentially more impressive... Serious question: why? Is it not just pointing it at its massive training corpus for a list of unsolved problems, and possibly even by degree of perceived difficulty? I'm trying to under
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
That's exactly what it feels like and it makes perfect sense, given the known compute constraints.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
What do you mean? As in, they are reallocating compute away from previous models? If so, I would think that would result in worsened performance, not quality (unless you are also suggesting they may be quantizing).
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
You mean like quantized?
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> I thought models are getting dumber, but benchmarks were convincing opposite > Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 seems worse models than Opus 4.6 After all we've heard about benchmark cheating, I'm earnestly not sure which or whether
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> It's an empty point and a boring one and leads nowhere. But, is it true ? > It means nothing...shallow... Ironically, the entirety of your comment just repeats that the GP comment means nothing. There is no further explanati
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
Maybe true if the discussion was an explicit comparison between the U.S. and modern Europe. As it is, no one was discussing Europe, let alone holding it up as a model society.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> This differentiates the US from who, exactly? What-aboutism is not a very compelling argument.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
I sometimes wonder what the tipping point is for people, or whether there actually is one for many. It's as if they are looking for an exacting duplicate of previous regimes before they become concerned—the agency name must be "St
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. -Mark Twain
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
This is what I meant by "imposing specific choices, determined by a key". Maybe "impose" or "specific" were too strong in my attempt to simplify? I attempted to clarify that the impositions themselves are not d
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
Simple version: In instances wherein the otherwise statistically chosen next word is a "toss-up", watermarking removes the randomness by imposing specific choices, determined by a key. This then becomes a detectable pattern when s
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
The style... CC: "The problem is that I overreached..." [Wall of words here] "Two things: window surface is limited. Extract template. Buffer result and add to surface. Then, follow-up with new model..." Me: What do you
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
I noticed a few releases ago a shift to a kind of conversational shorthand that seems to be intensifying—using phrases instead of complete sentences and its own style of jargon, wherein it introduces new terminology on the fly. This is espe
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Sergey Brin has spent $100M to fight California's proposed billionaire tax(fortune.com)
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
You're running Cloudflare Pages on a home server?
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
What would really be crazy is if there were a platform on which people provided commentary about other people's commentary on other people's commentary.
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
To GP's point, any connected server can become a liability, even if it is intended to just host static HTML (or for some other purpose).
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by unclebucknasty 1mo ago
> Is it the AI or the number of cameras? To be clear, the controversy didn't just arise with AI—it only intensified. > we should pay a team to spend hundreds of man hours... Some argue that none of it should be happening, so wo
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
> There is zero privacy in public spaces You've agreed that this fact does not preclude uncomfortable scenarios, even for yourself. So, the discussion is about where people fall in their comfort. I would sum up my response to the r
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
> maybe exposes hypocrisy I don't know that hypocrisy is the word, but it does seem that you're going a long way to carve out an exception, where there is no real difference. That is, it appears that you've simply decided
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
> I would certainly feel different if followed by an actual human Why would this bother you? Because of the prospect of physical harm, or the idea that they are watching you/invading your privacy?
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
> upvotes-to-comments ratio Makes far more sense than comment count alone.
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
Seems unlikely. Using comment count as an indicator of poor quality discussion would treat topics with intense interest and engaging discussion like flame wars. So, I find this explanation hard to believe, especially given that the mods her
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by unclebucknasty 2mo ago
1000% astroturfing—and across social media. Too many posts of the same quality at the same time(s). These things ran in cycles, spinning up and dissipating just as suddenly. E.g. the entire framing to combat complaints about shortcomings wa

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